The Smoking Gun: Proposition 8

On November 4, 2008, Proposition 8 California, which restricts the definition of marriage to a union between a man and a woman, and eliminates the right of same-sex sanctions, was passed into law.

The gay community is livid and outraged with the California black community and the Mormon Church, and has publicly denounced both communities. The gay community holds both groups accountable and responsible for the passing of Proposition 8 due to the groups’ higher than usual turnout at the polls during one of the most momentous and historical presidential elections of all time. They have heinously lashed out at the Black community, labeling the group not only as bigots and homophobes, but have gone so far as to refer to the Black community by the n-word.

In recent times, the Gay Movement has successfully been billed as a civil rights movement. And because of this, perhaps the gay community views their struggles for acceptance, equal rights, and fair treatment to that of the African-American Civil Rights Movement. Perhaps, during this year’s election, the gay community assumed the black community would empathize with their struggles and fully support them in this effort.

Regardless of the gay community’s frustration with the California black community’s collective voice toward same-sex marriage, using racial terms to express their discontent, feeling of desertion by another minority group, or search for empathy is completely insensible, unnecessary, and uncivilized. No one has disrespected the gay community by using the f-word; thus, the black community should not be degraded and antagonized for civilly and rightfully expressing their opinion regarding the normal definition of marriage, unity.

For the record, I have no issue with one’s domesticating preferences, therefore, I am in no way passing judgment on individuals’ choices—for their morals are their own. However, as I scrutinized this entire situation more closely, I constantly found myself plagued with the question of how did we, mankind, even end up confronting this issue? By natural order, true unity is defined as the joining between one man and one woman. Accepting same-sex marriage and any of its associations (ie, transgender and transexuality) as normal and natural demeanors is, well, unnatural. Nature endowed both male and female with all the genuine, distinctive assets needed to mate and bear children; artificially compensating for a lack thereof or “re-arranging” roles seems to be an intrusion on normalcy.

The African-American Civil Rights Movement and the Gay Civil Rights Movement are two completely distinct movements. The African-American Civil Rights Movement fought to eliminate inhumane injustices bestowed upon an entire race of people. Clearly, the African-American Civil Rights Movement was a resistance to institutionalized white supremacy: a movement against segregation of public facilities and academic institutions, the denial of the right to vote—a fight for equal opportunity. The African-American Civil Rights Movement was an effort to restore natural order.
Although the intension is not to downplay the significance of the gay community’s development—as to do so would be disrespectful to another’s beliefs, homosexuality is not a plight to restore natural order, and thus, cannot be viewed in the same light as the African-American Civil Rights Movement. Homosexuality reflects, just as slavery and the heinous mistreatment of African Americans for centuries, the birth of man-made ideologies attempting to take precedence over that which is natural. However, just as these unnatural phenomena were eventually re-arranged to reflect the natural design, one only believes that the passing of Proposition 8 is in line with this truth.
The gay community continually attempts to gain ground in their movement by forcing upon an unsuspecting society a way of life that appears to be normal and natural. In the state of Massachusetts, a movement is afoot to teach students in the public school system, beginning in second grade, to accept Gay life as normal, righteous, and morally acceptable. If efforts such as this one materialize, the moral and conscious attitude of our nation will be hanging in the balance.

Even though we reside in a day and age of unparalleled freedom of voice and exercise of civil liberties, no effort to redefine family values/morals and undermine the true natural order should be acceptable. One's sexual orientation is a private matter, and should remain behind closed doors. However, the highly vocal and visible Gay Movement has crossed the privacy line, and has, opened the door for public opinion and scrutiny to either agree or disagree with their intended agenda. Any refute to the gay community’s public agenda should not be met with harsh feelings and disrespectful antics, but with the utmost respect and regard for one’s freedom of voice—and choice.